Guest Room Press
Guest Room Press is the first hybrid press of its kind in West Virginia and home of Guest Room Journal. We're not a vanity press & you don't have to publish with us to work with us. We combine professional development training with hybrid publishing & more. We offer private mentoring & consulting face-to-face, via phone & email on everything from creative writing, marketing & branding, public speaking & literary performance. Our in-house designers offer website design, book-cover design, logo & book-promotion material design.
Our team is made up of professional authors with years of teaching experience in college literature, business writing & creative writing. While we work with writers of all backgrounds, we especially hope to work with voices underrepresented in publishing such as women, regional, and the working class. We manage your book for its lifespan & we are passionate about your work.
Our vision? To see you become.
Lara Lillibridge
Lara is nonfiction manuscript consultant & marketing consultant for Guest Room Press. She is the author of two memoirs, Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent—from Divorce and Dating to Cooking and Crafting, All While Raising the Kids and Maintaining Your Own Sanity (Sort Of) & Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist. Lara co-edited an anthology with Andrea Fekete entitled Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility (2019), which took the Silver Award for Foreword Review's Indie Book of the Year in women's studies.
Lara Lillibridge is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. In 2016 she won Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s Prose Contest & The American Literary Review's Contest in Nonfiction. She also was a finalist in both Black Warrior Review’s Nonfiction Contest and DisQuiet’s Literary Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
She is a member of the reading panel for Hippocampus Magazine & was awarded their Literary Citizen of the Year for 2019. Lara judged AWP's Intro Journals Project for 2019 & was recently selected as a mentor for their Writer to Writer program.
